In hundreds of locations, Nazis set synagogues ablaze. The 9th of November is the Night of the Broken Glass.
The Nazi leadership gives the signal to attack, and issues orders to party followers: Synagogues and Jewish businesses are to burn. His family are threatened with deportation - a welcome pretext for the Nazis. We had become fair game, they could do to us whatever they wanted.' NARRATOR: On November 7, 1938, a Polish Jew shoots a German diplomat in Paris. GEORG STEFAN TROLLER: 'Things previously frowned upon by the state were suddenly permitted. It begins with the boycotting of Jewish businesses, and leads ever more frequently to violence. Those who don't fit the picture, such as the Jews, are disdained, disenfranchised, persecuted. NARRATOR: Hitler's Reich in the 1930s - the propaganda of the Nazi regime appeals to the German ethnic community, and decides who belongs where, from childhood onwards. This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.
